Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 13943, Joseph Edwards, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Edwards Joseph
R. 13943
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1910 Mch. 25. Hist. to Mrs. W. E. Callender - f
13943
P. O. _____
Joseph Edwards
Service: _____
Revolutionary
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
REJECTED
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis.
Searched for _____
18

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by W. T. Conloye
Claim No. 3/22/1910.
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Joseph Edwards
Service Va. Rev. War.
Additional Service. _____
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No claim as above except SWI Rej 13,943. born Feb. 1, 1754 Fauquier Co., Va. Va. service - 1833 res. Greenville Dist., S. C.

Joseph Edwards - So Car -
Rejected -
Letter 20 Nov: 1870 No.
H. G. Perry -
Act 17 June 1872

The foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Edwards for a Pension
In testimony whereof the hereunto set my hand and seal of office - this 24th October 1833. - I McDaniel C.C.P
B. F. Perry General C.H.
Joseph Edwards
28.067

South Carolina Granville District } In this the fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord 1833 personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and General Session Joseph Edmund a resident of the District of Granville and State of South Carolina, aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law, saith on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 -
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - That he first entered the service under Captain Weaver and Joseph Lockman, Lieutenants - in the spring of 1778. and served not less than two months - was marched to Richmond Virginia - was placed by the Captain to drive a waggan and being in quarters for the campaign - The second time he went under Captain Elias Edmunds for not less than two months - marched to Richmond and went to other towns and places in Virginia - The third time he served two months under Captain John Ball - The fourth time he served under Captain John Church well not less than two months was marched to guard Fredericksburg The fifth time he served not less than two months under Captain Charles Williams The sixth time he served not less than four months under Captain Jennings or Ginnings and Lieutenant Blackwell marched from Richmond to Albermarle - was put guard the Braggas wagon.

This tour was known by the name of The Running tour - He served the greater parts of his time in driving a waggons was off driving a waggons when Lord Wallace was taken at the Battle of York Town - He can not from old age and the consequent loss of memory swear as to the precise period of his entering the service, nor as to the exact length of each tour - but to the best of his recollection not less than the period mentioned above, and at same time between the year 1778 and the taking of Lord Wallace in 1781 - He served altogether not less than fourteen months as a private in the Militia of Virginia and for such service he claims a Pension - He lived in Fauquier County, State of Virginia when he entered the service - was drafted every time - was in no battle - the whole of his service was done in the State of Vir- ginia - he does not recollect the names of any regular officers or continental regim- ents in as much as he was placed at waggoning and detached from the main army - He has no documentary evidence He knows of no one whose testimony he can procure as to his services - He was discharged from service some few days after the Battle of York Town -
1 st Was born in Fauquier County Virginia in the year 1754 February 1 st 2 nd Has a record of his age at home in his Bible - 3 rd Was living in Fauquier County, Virginia when called into service and has lived in

Greenville to track South Carolina where he now live, ever since the Revolution war war - 4 th He was drafted each year. 5 th In consequence of the war also ready given being principally employed in waggoning, he does not recall any regular officers or continental regiments - 6 th He never received a discharge - 7 th He is known in his present neighborhood to General Davis Mr. Daniel, Thomas Doyler, Mrs Brander and others who can testify as to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension at an annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of army state - he owns the lands described in the day and year aforesaid
McDaniel C.C.D
Joseph his Edwards Mark
We Nathan Berry
a clergyman residing in the district of Greenville and Mrs W. Brander residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Edwards, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty years of age; that he resided and returned in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - we own and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
McDaniel C.C.D
Nathan Berry A.W.L. Edwards
and the said count be hereby declared

Their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Matthew Boody who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the District of Greenville and that Bro W Brande who also signed the same is a resident in Greenville and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
J T Richardson Jug Judge
I James McDaniel Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Greenville District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Edwards for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office - this 14th October 1833.
McDaniel C.C.P
B. H. Brown Greenville C.H.
Joseph Edwards
28.67

To Mrs. W. T. Callender, Falls Church, Va. Personal inquiry Feb. 21, 1910. Ann
R. File No. 13,943, Joseph Edwards applied for pension October 14, 1833, while a resident of Greenville District, South Carolina. He stated that he was born February 1, 1754 in Fauquier County, Virginia, where he resided when he enlisted in the Spring of 1778, as a private in the Virginia Militia and was principally engaged in driving a team at various times until a few days after the surrender of Yorktown in 1781, as follows; for two months under Captain Weaver; two months under Captain Elias Edmunds; two months under Captain John Ball; two months under Captain John Churchwell; two months under Captain Charles Williams and four months under Captain Jennings. He was in no battles.
This claim was never allowed for the reason that the alleged fourteen months of Wagon service in the Militia, was not construed as "military" within the meaning of the Act of June 7, 1832 under which the claimant applied.
There is no further data on file.